UTS 42012 Report: Lucas Height Resource Recovery Park Assessment

This report provides a detailed analysis of the Lucas Height Resource Recovery Park (LHRRP), a SUEZ facility located near Sydney, Australia. The report begins with an introduction to the site, its location, and its significant role in diverting organic waste from landfills by converting it into compost and soil conditioners. It covers the site's operations, including public drop-off areas, organic resource recovery facilities, and engineered landfills. The report examines the current design capacity of the park, which processes 50,000 tonnes of organic materials annually, and describes the treatment processes used for land rehabilitation and the conversion of timber into mulches and biofuels. The report further discusses the purpose of green technologies employed at the site, such as water and air purification, and sewage treatment. The report concludes with recommendations for improving site operations and highlights the importance of converting landfills into more productive grounds. The report is based on a field trip undertaken by students, and it addresses key aspects such as the site's history, waste management strategies, treatment processes, and the application of green technologies, including a schematic diagram of the treatment process and references to relevant literature.

Lucas Height
Resource Recovery
Park
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Institution
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Introduction
 The Lucas Height Resource Recovery Park (LHRRP) location lies at an
approximate distance of about 30 kilometers in the Lucas Height
south western sides of the local government of the Sydney Central
Business District.
 The LHRRP covers a total of about two hundred and five hectares of
land and of this, a total of 89.5 is owned by the SUEZ.
 With a 1.6km extra zone in radius, the other land lies in the
organization of the Australia generally known as the Australian
Nuclear Science and Technology Organization.
 The Lucas Height Resource Recovery Park in the SUEZ facility has
impacted more on the diverting the organics generated from the
landfill by converting all these resources to a high-quality compost
manures and the soil conditioners.
 It has an annual organic material weighing to a capacity of 500,000
tonnes.
 The site was opened back in the year 1987.

Cont..
 The site has a span of approximately 165 hectares with an total of not
less that one hundred and fifty vehicles, both trucks and cars using
the site each and every year.

Site operations
 An area for the public drop-off
 An organic resource recovery facility
 An engineered landfill
 Community reference group through which the awareness could be
made clear
 Targeted personnel
 The householders
 The small business
 The councils

Current design capacity
 The process through which the organization is able to determine its
production as a desire of ensuring all the demands that arises along
the production objective is met for all the products under control.
 Design capacity means the total amount of work that could be
maximumly achieved by each and every organization and could be
completed comfortably within a given timeline without strain, Park,
Lee & Kim (2015).
 For the Lucas Height Resource Recovery Park, the current design
capacity is an annual production of 50,000 tonnes of organic
materials.

Treatment process
 For the land rehabilitation, diversion of the organic materials towards
being channeled to the landfill is ensured through the processing
process where these materials are converted into composts while
others are converted to form the conditioners.
 The Park is also tasked with the treatment of the timber into a better
form of mulches and the well-known biofuels which are good in the
production of the seedlings, da Silva César, de Azedias Almeida, de
Souza, Silva, & Atabani (2015).

New task
 Saves valuable time and resources during an incident
 Allows more efficient and effective waste management decision-
making during an incident
 Encourages stakeholders to form a strong team in which all the
activities that can arise are dealt together once before they bring
harm to the organization.
 At the time of recovery, the Lucas height resource recovery Park is
task with boosting the resiliency of the surrounding community,
hence making it easier to attain its original state.
 The adaptation of each communities towards the impacts of this
waste materials produced as a result or the change of a climate is
enhanced.

Purpose of green technologies
 Water purification- This process of purification is concerned with
the fact of ensuring that dirt or the germs on water is not seen, or
rather it is tasked with ensuring that the site has a dirt-free water
flowing throughout the whole environment
 Air purification- This is seen through the campaign for the
plantation of the common green plants around to ensure all the
carbon dioxide gases produced during the recycling process are being
used up by the plants and inn return produce the oxygen required by
for respiration
 Sewage treatment- Just like the water purification, based on the
level of water pollution, Sewage treatment ensures water is being
purified accordingly. Many of the process in the Lucas Resource
Recovery Park require water, pure water for its operations. Once the
water is polluted, it’s not fit for use for any process, so instead of
dumping it to other sources, it is better to first treat them in order to
ensure that other concepts of the environment are protected and are
fit for the sustenance

Recommendations
 From the site operations, all the activtiies carried out should include
both the positive and the negative effects.
 It is highly recommended that the land fills should be converted to
some more productive ground so as to help improve the economy of
the nation.

References
 da Silva César, A., de Azedias Almeida, F., de Souza, R. P., Silva, G. C.,
& Atabani, A. E. (2015). The prospects of using Acrocomia aculeata
(macaúba) a non-edible biodiesel feedstock in Brazil. Renewable and
Sustainable Energy Reviews, 49, 1213-1220.
 Fuess, L. T., Kiyuna, L. S. M., Júnior, A. D. N. F., Persinoti, G. F., Squina,
F. M., Garcia, M. L., & Zaiat, M. (2017). Thermophilic two-phase
anaerobic digestion using an innovative fixed-bed reactor for
enhanced organic matter removal and bioenergy recovery from
sugarcane vinasse. Applied energy, 189, 480-491.
 Park, M., Lee, J., Park, B., & Kim, S. (2015). Estimation of Bio retention
Design Capacity Using Principal of Diminishing Returns. Journal of
Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, 15(2), 363-368.